Mostly Economics

Christos Mavrogiannis, Nico Zorell and Christoph Zwick in this new ECB paper discusses the impact of structural reforms on the private investments: This paper examines the impact of labour and product market reforms on private investment across 26 advanced economies from 1975 to 2020.  To this end, we combine a narrative database on major structural […]

Roger Svensson  of Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) in this paper discusses the small change problem from a historical lens: This chapter analyses the historical and economic logic of small-denomination coin production and circulation from antiquity to the early modern period. The persistent problem of small-change shortages is primarily attributed to the disprop...

A Teacher Writes to Students Series (74): Good Knowledge Annavajhula J C Bose, PhD Former Professor, Department of Economics, SRCC, DU According to the International Economic Association, “Economists must adhere to the highest standards of honesty and integrity in their work. They must always act ethically, honestly and with integrity.” And according to the American … …

Museum of American Finance in its quarterly magazine has an interesting article by Joe Martin, President emeritus of the Canadian Business History Association: In the late 19th century, Adam Shortt, Canada’s “first economist,” wrote an article for the Journal of the Canadian Bankers Association in which he concluded, “The father of the Canadian banking system … …

Mohammad Ghaderi, Sébastien Plante, Nikolai Roussanov & Sang Byung Seo in this NBER paper trace 128 year history of US corporate bonds: Do corporate bond investors earn compensation for bearing credit risk? We construct a new historical corporate bond database spanning 128 years to estimate a corporate bond counterpart to the equity risk premium. Combining … …